Sunday, July 22, 2007

Lurking in Literature

Not much to say today--I am far too busy enjoying the creative mind of this lovely woman. I'm reading Harry Potter 7 to my sons, as I did the previous six, and the oral recitation makes it a bit more of a slow-going process, but BOY is it exciting! What a wonderful tale, and how sorry I will be when it's over.

Harry's not officially a mystery, I suppose, and yet I've rarely encountered such beautifully crafted suspense. We mystery writers can all take a lesson from JKR: those delightful little details help to build the suspense.

Book One in the Undercover Dish series

Tributes to Great Writers

International Author Interviews

Mark Twain on Writing

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."